Harmar township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (72% naturalized citizens)
| Harmar township: | 3.6% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
60% of Harmar township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 77% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 73% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2812
- Northeast: 88
- Midwest: 97
- South: 88
- West: 25
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $57,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
52 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
3 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 960
- One, attached: 284
- Two: 66
- 3 or 4: 87
- 5 to 9: 52
- 10 to 19: 37
- 20 to 49: 12
- 50 or more: 14
- Mobile homes: 125
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,000
Housing units in Harmar township with a mortgage: 445 (17 second mortgage, 85 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 517
- Construction (12%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Health care (9%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Harmar township:
- Italian (23.2%)
- German (19.9%)
- Irish (11.0%)
- Polish (10.6%)
- English (7.8%)
- Slovak (4.9%)
- Russian (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (29%)
- Japan (15%)
- Peru (11%)
- Canada (11%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (9%)
- Jamaica (8%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,179 (79%)
- Carpooled: 179 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 51 (3%)
- Walked: 27 (2%)
- Other means: 13 (1%)
- Worked at home: 39 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (78%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
52 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
3 people in other group homes
93.6% of residents of Harmar township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (83% speak English very well, 17% speak English well).
4.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (80% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (45% speak English very well, 55% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,187- In family households: 2,471 (643 male householders, 230 female householders)
708 spouses, 759 children (737 natural, 0 adopted, 22 stepchildren), 45 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 27 other relatives, 41 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 716 (265 male householders (234 living alone)), 371 female householders (335 living alone)), 80 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 55 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 480 2-persons, 198 3-persons, 136 4-persons, 19 5-persons, 14 6-persons, 26 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 569 1-person, 67 2-persons,
382 married couples with children.
125 single-parent households (32 men, 93 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
| Here: | 1.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 24
| Here: | 14.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 26
| Here: | 26.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |